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Originally Posted by JDK1962
Sorry if all that seems harsh or elitist. But I'm just not willing to spend valuable reading time to try to find the one indie author in a hundred who might be as good as the authors I've already got in my "To Be Read" collection.
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You might find Simon Royle's Indie Book Reviewers list of interest then:
http://www.simon-royle.com/indie-reviewers/ Reviewers can't review all indie fiction, but they do help with the searching bit. Reading one review is less time consuming than going through 10+ samples.
There is a lot of badly constructed fiction out there, but there are also a lot of really good fiction that is at the same level of quality as traditionally published works. I've been finding new authors to follow that I wouldn't have learned about otherwise, so I'm a happy reader. I don't care about business models, I just want to read a good book, regardless of who is on what payroll or if they used a paid editor or several unpaid betas.